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Abia State Government has ordered each tricycle operators to halt operating connected the Umuahia–Obowo–Owerri route.
It besides directed the contiguous stoppage of tricycle question from Umuahia to Ohafia and Arochukwu, with a directive that each defaulters beryllium arrested.
In a statement, the state’s Commissioner for Transport, Chimezie Isaac Ukaegbu, said the measurement was aimed astatine ensuring sanity, order, and information connected the state’s roads.
He warned that immoderate tricycle relation recovered violating the directive would beryllium arrested, adding that the tricycle belonging to the violator would beryllium impounded.
The authorities urged each affected tricycle operators, popularly known arsenic Keke NAPEP, arsenic good arsenic members of the public, to comply with the directive.
Responding to panic among operators successful Umuahia, Ukaegbu said the argumentation was targeted lone astatine long-distance journeys, stressing that it was not a full prohibition connected tricycles successful the state.
“Keke (tricycle) operators are not banned from operating successful Abia State.
“The regularisation lone applies to the usage of tricycles for long-distance rider proscription to destinations specified arsenic Owerri, Obowo, Mbaise, and Arochukwu,” Ukaegbu said.
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